Form, Function, and Funding: The High-Tech Urbanism of San Francisco

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https://www.archdaily.com/1039650/form-function-and-funding-the-high-tech-urbanism-of-san-francisco!.?.!San Francisco is a city that has constantly remade itself under pressure. Its Victorian streetscapes have survived seismic

retrofits and glass towers, its communities specified as much by change as by its resistance to change. However no force in the city’s history has actually reshaped the developed environment as completely, or as rapidly, as the technology economy. What began in the postwar sprawl of Silicon Valley moved north and engraved its logic onto the horizon and the lives of citizens. The outcome of this reasoning is an architectural culture of substantial technical refinement and fine-tuned product schemes, yet one that stays largely indifferent to the existing population.The cost of indifference is quantifiable and installing. San Francisco must accommodate more than 82,000 additional real estate units by 2031 under California’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation structure, in a city where mean lease already ranks among the highest of any American city. Teachers, healthcare employees, and service workers are actively displaced by a real estate market calibrated to a single sector’s income levels rather than the city’s largest labor force.+25]]